How far back does your interest in boxing history go?

[The Big Dunn]

I think they are the worst fan base in the sport. The typical Mayweather fan hates the sport, has no respect for the history and barely knows any of it. They are the "boxing started when Floyd started" brigade. They go on about "resume resume resume", yet there's only two great fighters he fought - Pacquaio who was washed up and Marquez who was far too small. Their fans think Pacquaio ****** so that leaves only Marquez and I'm a huge Marquez fan and realize Pacquaio's greater so zero great fighters defeated for Floyd yet they'll just dismiss a fighter they've never seen or even heard of because it's out of their scope of interest and they only watch boxing for Floyd and now Canelo because they are desperate to elevate him.

This is an outright lie. You’ve encountered maybe one person like this and decided to stereotype the whole fanbase because you think most of his fanbase is black.

[chrisJS]

This is an outright lie. You’ve encountered maybe one person like this and decided to stereotype the whole fanbase because you think most of his fanbase is black.

What does being black have to do with this? I’m just saying the “average” Mayweather fan. Most I’ve encountered are as I described. They like him more than the sport.

[Damn Wicked]

I witnessed "the original" boxing match way back then, and I've been a fan ever since.

"Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul to waste"

Hope you guessed my name .......

[The plunger man]

I would say late 70's with the winding down of ali's career and the birth of the great welterweights got me hooked and up untill this day i still get up at 4am to watch a big fight.
Would scoot back in history and watch the legends like louis and robinson etc but it never held my attention much if i am being honest.
So 70's till present day

[Lomasexual]

My dad was always a fan of boxing, and he had a pile of ancient Ring magazines. He'd tell me about his favourites and we'd watch some classic footage.
So I guess I was exposed to a little bit of the history, but never really took an active interest. We'd go to the pub to watch Aussie fighters like Jeff Fenech and Lester Ellis etc. So I was absorbing knowledge about it then.

It wasn't really until the early 2000s that I got into watching it really regularly. I've seen hundreds of fights, but I wouldn't consider myself any kind of historian - and even from the time in the early 2000s when my interest grew and grew, there are still a lot of people whose depth of knowledge is encyclopedic compared to mine.

[Roadblock]

My first live match I went to was 1965 to watch my ol man fight a 6 rounder, it was at Festival Hall Melbourne Australia, the very same venue the year before dad took me to see the Beatles, two very special memories I will never forget, was hooked on booking ever since..

[The Big Dunn]

What does being black have to do with this? I’m just saying the “average” Mayweather fan. Most I’ve encountered are as I described. They like him more than the sport.

Pure BS. You do this thing where you stereotype and exaggerate everything “mayweather” fans do yet say nothing when it’s other fans.

Why is it if a mayweather fan thinks he is the best that you criticize them with coded language and say they lack historical knowledge but if a Loma fan says same you just simply disagree?

When a ggg fan over rates him you make no stereotypical assertions or criticize lack of knowledge. Only certain fans.

Pathetic.

[N!Ck F.]

There's a tendency in sports to go over the top in discrediting those that are popular among the masses.

Basically, I think they overrate and we respond by underrating Tyson.

He was amazing up to about the age of 23. Could and probably should have been the best ever by a huge margin. That puts him in a fairly unique position.

If you don't worry about where he ranks in the all time list, you can just appreciate how lucky we were to see him fight. And I don't know that I'd rank anyone in my lifetime higher in that regard.

You’re basing that on his physical abilties, and not his character. Lots of guys are psychically gifted, few are mentally tough. Tyson proved over, and over, and over again he was weak mentally. Not emotionally tough. Everytime an opponent took his best shot and hit him back he folded or quit. Tough is Ali getting up from that left hook Frazier floored him with. Tough is Evander Holyfield, tough is Lennox Lewis... mike was as physically awesome as you could be, and as mentally weak as you could be at the same time. Once a quitter, always a quitter and tyson quit about 5 different times.
Again, I’m a huge fan, He’s why I started boxing. But when I learned the sport I could see clear as day he was mentally weak, any unbiased person could.